Hey, I have a question.. are duplicate links bad for SEO? I know duplicate content is. I have a social network layout site, and I wanted to have myspace layouts with links, tumblr layouts with the same links, twitter layouts with the same links and so on in the sidebar. So different headings with the same links... Sorry am I bad at explaining Haha.
...Not sure what you mean but if you mean you should vary the places where you stick the links then yeah you should. Gives it more variety than coming from all similar places. But the link should always be the page you want to rank higher and get more traffic to.
If I understood good, you want to have one link to a same page ona many places on one single page. Like, 5 links from one page to another page. You can put 2-3 links to the same page but do not do that 10 times or so... many websites have topmenu, left/right menu, and also footer links and have no problem... Just to know, google will count only first link in the code, so after that, no other links to the same page counts.
That is social networking and bookmarking site where you can add all pages, it's not mean that you have got duplicate links. it's not bad, i think.
If you placed more links on same page then no meaning because google consider it as only one link. Google not gives any weightage for other links.
There is nothing wrong with having sidebar links on multiple pages pointing to the same pages (even with the same link text). This happens in many places naturally like templated portions of the page - top navigations/menus, footers, left navigations/menus. If possible it is typically a good practice to vary link texts... So if, for instance, I link to a major page in the top navigation, in breadcrumbs, and in the footer (all from the same page) then I typically will use 3 slight variations of the targeted keyword phrase as the 3 link texts. So If I repeat a link in the top navigation and footer. I make sure they are slightly different. If I using breadcrumbs then I vary it again. Varying link text like this still helps you rank for your targeted keyword phrase, but more importantly lots of small variations of that phrase that you might not have considered.
duplicate links isn't a problem if it's what you want to rank for. If your website is about cars for instance you may want the anchor text used blue cars . I would focus only on this phrase until you are in striking distance of number 1, then begin to vary it, for the longtail. No worries with link building though.
Here is what Google said about the Duplicate Content Issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSoXutuj0g Greg says people see messages like the one below and think their content is getting omitted from Google's results, when in fact it really may just be being omitted for that particular query. Greg stresses that duplicate content is simply a factor on a "by query" basis.
even you create a lot of links on a specific page, for google that link has the same weight compare the weight of a single link on a page.